Let's set the scene — you're using Slack for your team communication. You either don't celebrate your team's work anniversaries and birthdays, or you're an HR professional and have all the birthdays in an HRIS software (for example BambooHR), or even worse, an Excel spreadsheet.
Every day, you open your spreadsheet or receive a notification that it's someone's birthday. You then write a beautiful message for your colleague, post it to Slack and have your team join the celebration. We have a solution that makes it easier and seamless for you.
We're building Jolly, an incredibly intuitive & joyful Slack celebration bot. With Jolly, you won't have to worry about manually handling your team celebrations, like birthdays or work anniversaries.
Jolly is a simple celebration bot that seamlessly integrates with your Slack organization. When we say simple, we don't mean lacking features. We mean that Jolly is intuitive and works "out of the box", but can be customized to cater to every team size.
Let's explore reasons why your team should choose Jolly for your Slack team celebrations.
Handcrafted & joyful celebration messages
Jolly will send a beautiful and joyful celebration message to the Slack channel on the day of the birthday or a work anniversary. Your team can then join in congratulating the beloved team member.
Of course, you configure what time Jolly will send the celebration and in what timezone.
Customize the messages to fully personalize your celebrations
We didn't want to leave you hanging with our pre-defined list of messages. You can add your own set of messages for every celebration type. When it's time to post the celebration, Jolly will select one at random.
This means you can add your team member's age, number of years they worked there, and fully personalize it for your team.
Boost your team morale & engagement
Thousands of teams using Jolly have told us their team is much more engaged and that they have created a more positive work environment.
And who wouldn't be happier and more engaged when they receive a beautiful message on their birthday, and then their entire team shows they care by joining in?
Jolly exists to boost your team's morale. Even if your team is spread out across the globe, Jolly is perfect for virtually bringing the team together. Make sure your team is present when it matters.
Import your team's birthdays/anniversaries
To cater to every scenario, we had to offer several ways of collecting your team's birthdays and work anniversaries.
For HR managers who want to let team members enter their own birthdays, we have an option where Jolly will send a private DM to every person in Slack organization and ask them to enter their birthday and/or work anniversary.
If you don't want to bother your team and have a list of their birthdays and work anniversaries, Jolly has you covered as well. You can open Jolly and manually enter all the information, or simply import them from an Excel file.
Keep celebrations private to each team
The gist of Jolly is sending celebration messages to the Slack channel. That opens up a bunch of possibilities for you to truly fine-tune your team celebrations. Remember how we said Jolly is simple, but not lacking features?
Well, here's an example of how you can customize Jolly. Let's say you're a company of 100. You have a bunch of teams, and each team has its own private Slack channel for internal team communications, for example #dev-team or #design-team.
You can configure Jolly to send celebration messages in both of these channels, but only when channel members have a birthday or a work anniversary. This makes Jolly super customizable for larger teams that want separation and more privacy in their team celebrations.
Getting personally reminded about your friends' birthdays
With the concept of favorites, Jolly gives every team member the ability to get personally reminded about birthdays and work anniversaries of their favorite coworkers. All they have to do is add these people to their list of favorites, and they'll get DM on those special days.
Jolly also allows you to receive a weekly notification reminding you about all the celebrations coming that week.
You're supporting small businesses
We may be a small business, but we're not small. We are transparent and open. Being a small business makes us ship new features incredibly fast. Buying software from us supports a team of a few people who work hard to make your team happier!
Because we are small, we prioritize customer support. You’ll never get an AI-generated response from us; we personally reply to every inquiry.
Interested in getting started and joining thousands of teams already using Jolly? You can find Jolly at Slack App Directory. It literally takes 5 minutes to install and set up.